The number of people with liver cancer will nearly double worldwide by 2050 unless more is done to address preventable causes such as obesity, alcohol consumption and hepatitis, a study warned Tuesday.<\/p>\n
New cases of liver cancer — the sixth most common form of the disease — will rise to 1.52 million a year from 870,000 if current trends continue, according to data from the Global Cancer Observatory published in the Lancet medical journal.<\/p>\n
It is also the third deadliest of all cancers, with the study predicting it would take 1.37 million lives by the middle of the century.<\/p>\n
However three out of five cases of liver cancer could be prevented, the international team of experts said.<\/p>\n
The risk factors are drinking alcohol, viral hepatitis and a build-up of fat in the liver linked to obesity called MASLD, which was previously known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.<\/p>\n
The viruses that cause hepatitis B and C are expected to remain the leading causes of liver cancer in 2050, according to the study, published on World Hepatitis Day.<\/p>\n
Vaccination at birth is the best way to prevent hepatitis B, but vaccine coverage remains low in poorer countries including in sub-Saharan Africa, the study said.<\/p>\n
Unless vaccination rates are increased, hepatitis B is expected to kill 17 million people between 2015 and 2030, it added.<\/p>\n
Alcohol consumption is estimated to cause more than 21 percent of all cases of liver cancer by 2050, up more than two percentage points from 2022.<\/p>\n
Cancer due to obesity-linked fat in livers will rise to 11 percent, also up more than two percentage points, the researchers calculated.<\/p>\n
The large-scale study, which reviewed the available evidence on the subject, underscored “the urgent need for global action” on liver cancer, the authors said.<\/p>\n
The experts called for more public awareness about the preventable danger of liver cancer, particularly by warning people with obesity or diabetes about fatty-liver disease in the United States, Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n
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